Photo Credit: David Armstrong, 2013 “All exhibitions are constructions, frames placed around a collection of works of art”

-Elisabeth Sussman, Preface, El Corazon Sagrante,1991 “I’ve always thought that a meaningful art program in a contemporary art museum would be one where you could take in and be involved with not only the visual arts–painting, sculpture, photography, installations, etc–but also performance, film, music.”

-Elisabeth Sussman, A Year in the Making…Whitney Biennial, 2012Professional: -15 years at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston - Interim Director and Deputy Director for Programs -Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy (1999) -Fellow at the Getty Research Institute (2001) -Taught at M.I.T. and Tufts University -Press Release: "CCS BARD." CCS Bard. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.Curated Exhibitions: Whitney Museum Biennial (2012)Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania (2012)William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Whitney Museum of American art, (2010)Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (2007) Diane Arbus: Revelation, A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, (2011) Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2005)Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002)Keith Haring, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1997)Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1996) Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1993) Whitney Museum Biennial (1993)-Press Release: The Whitney Announces Curators For 2012 Biennial.Major Contributions: In 2013 Curator Elizabeth Sussman received the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. The award, which is 16 years old, is given to a curator whose leading role in curating the arts has “shaped the way we conceive of exhibition-making today. The award also comes with the Audrey Irmas Prize of $25,000.” -For Immediate Release, CCS Bard Gala Celebration, 2013 Sussman is also known for collaboration on large exhibition projects and is famed for her co-curating. She has curated shows with Sandra Phillips, David Armstrong, Jay Sanders, Lynn Zelevansky, and Thomas Weski to name a few.-Press Release: The Whitney Announces Curators For 2012 Biennial

Awards: -International Association of Art Critics (AICA)’s award for best monographic show in New York (2011). Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, New York, (2011) -AICA award for best monographic show in New York (2007). Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure, New York, (2007) -AICA’s First Prize for the best monographic exhibition outside of New York in 2001 and 2002. Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002)-Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Elisabeth Sussman Receives 2013 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, March 2014.

WHAT ARE CURATOR CARDS?

These Curator Cards began in Maryland Institute College of Art's inaugural Curatorial Practice MFA as a project for Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curatorial Practice (IACP) taught by Marcus Civin. This class focuses on revealing the history of curatorial practice by analyzing influential curators and exhibitions. The curator cards continue...

Together, a mix of students choose curators that spark their interest and create Curator Cards based on their research.

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